Fedora directory users - Mar 2006 - How to add a computer (feeling foolish)

I can''t figure out how to add a computer to the domain.

I''ve searched but can''t find anything on this, which I assume
means it is so
easy that no one has even bothered to write about it.

I created a user in the Domain Admins group.  I made that user an NT User,
set the NT User ID to be the same as the FDS User ID, and checked Create New
NT Account.

On a Windows XP box I went to System Properties->Computer Name->Computer
Name Changes and entered the domain name.

I am prompted to enter the name and password of an account with permission
to join the domain.  I have tried entering the user name both as
domainname\username and just username.  No matter what I entered I get:

"unknown user name or bad password"

I also tried adding a similar user (different User ID) to the Directory
Administrators group.  Using that user produced the same result.

If someone could please explain what needs to be done, or point me to a doc
no this very basic process, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
-Mont

It seems that this is a Samba issue and not a FDS issue.  I hadn''t
locked on
to the fact that Samba is the Domain controller and FDS is only the
Directory server.

-Mont


On 3/21/06, Mont Rothstein <mont.rothstein@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I can''t figure out how to add a computer to the domain.
>
> I''ve searched but can''t find anything on this, which I
assume means it is
> so easy that no one has even bothered to write about it.
>
> I created a user in the Domain Admins group.  I made that user an NT User,
> set the NT User ID to be the same as the FDS User ID, and checked Create
New
> NT Account.
>
> On a Windows XP box I went to System Properties->Computer
Name->Computer
> Name Changes and entered the domain name.
>
> I am prompted to enter the name and password of an account with permission
> to join the domain.  I have tried entering the user name both as
> domainname\username and just username.  No matter what I entered I get:
>
> "unknown user name or bad password"
>
> I also tried adding a similar user (different User ID) to the Directory
> Administrators group.  Using that user produced the same result.
>
> If someone could please explain what needs to be done, or point me to a
> doc no this very basic process, I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> -Mont
>
>

NT User has nothing to do with samba.

Samba uses SambaSamAccount objectclass - you can look through the schema
and check which attributes apply to samba.

You could make things easier on yourself and go through Samba
documentation...

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs

check out the ''By Example'' which pretty much covers everything
you would
need to know.

Craig

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 09:58 -0800, Mont Rothstein wrote:
> It seems that this is a Samba issue and not a FDS issue.  I hadn''t
> locked on to the fact that Samba is the Domain controller and FDS is
> only the Directory server.
> 
> -Mont
> 
> 
> On 3/21/06, Mont Rothstein <mont.rothstein@gmail.com> wrote:
>         I can''t figure out how to add a computer to the domain.
>         
>         I''ve searched but can''t find anything on this,
which I assume
>         means it is so easy that no one has even bothered to write
>         about it. 
>         
>         I created a user in the Domain Admins group.  I made that user
>         an NT User, set the NT User ID to be the same as the FDS User
>         ID, and checked Create New NT Account. 
>         
>         On a Windows XP box I went to System Properties->Computer
>         Name->Computer Name Changes and entered the domain name.
>         
>         I am prompted to enter the name and password of an account
>         with permission to join the domain.  I have tried entering the
>         user name both as domainname\username and just username.  No
>         matter what I entered I get: 
>         
>         "unknown user name or bad password"
>         
>         I also tried adding a similar user (different User ID) to the
>         Directory Administrators group.  Using that user produced the
>         same result.
>         
>         If someone could please explain what needs to be done, or
>         point me to a doc no this very basic process, I would
>         appreciate it. 
>         
>         Thanks,
>         
>         -Mont
>         
>         
> 
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Thank you for the heads up and the doc pointer.

-Mont


On 3/23/06, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
wrote:
>
> NT User has nothing to do with samba.
>
> Samba uses SambaSamAccount objectclass - you can look through the schema
> and check which attributes apply to samba.
>
> You could make things easier on yourself and go through Samba
> documentation...
>
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs
>
> check out the ''By Example'' which pretty much covers
everything you would
> need to know.
>
> Craig
>
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 09:58 -0800, Mont Rothstein wrote:
> > It seems that this is a Samba issue and not a FDS issue.  I
hadn''t
> > locked on to the fact that Samba is the Domain controller and FDS is
> > only the Directory server.
> >
> > -Mont
> >
> >
> > On 3/21/06, Mont Rothstein <mont.rothstein@gmail.com> wrote:
> >         I can''t figure out how to add a computer to the
domain.
> >
> >         I''ve searched but can''t find anything on
this, which I assume
> >         means it is so easy that no one has even bothered to write
> >         about it.
> >
> >         I created a user in the Domain Admins group.  I made that user
> >         an NT User, set the NT User ID to be the same as the FDS User
> >         ID, and checked Create New NT Account.
> >
> >         On a Windows XP box I went to System Properties->Computer
> >         Name->Computer Name Changes and entered the domain name.
> >
> >         I am prompted to enter the name and password of an account
> >         with permission to join the domain.  I have tried entering the
> >         user name both as domainname\username and just username.  No
> >         matter what I entered I get:
> >
> >         "unknown user name or bad password"
> >
> >         I also tried adding a similar user (different User ID) to the
> >         Directory Administrators group.  Using that user produced the
> >         same result.
> >
> >         If someone could please explain what needs to be done, or
> >         point me to a doc no this very basic process, I would
> >         appreciate it.
> >
> >         Thanks,
> >
> >         -Mont
> >
> >
> >
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